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(No Model.)

G," T. SHEPLEY.

MACHINE FOR FORMING GOUNTBRSTIPFENERS.

No. 298,420. PatentedMdy 13,1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

.GRANVILLE T. SHEPLEY, OF WEST GROTON, ASSIGN OR TO EDWIN H.

' SAMPSON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FOR FORMING CQUNTER-STIFFENERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,420, dated May 13, 1884.

Application filed March 31, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GRANVILLE T. SHEP- LEY, of West Groton. in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Atto John R. Moflitt, and more fully described in Letters Patent No. 178,869, dated June 20, 1876; and it consists of an attachment, hereinafter more fully described, adapted to be secured to the rolling mechanism of said machine, which consists, essentially, of concave and convex rolls, between which the flat blank is passed to produce what is known as a clamshell. By the use ofmy attachment the work of the operator is rendered easier and safer and the production of the machineincreased.

In the drawinga'Figure 1 is a front view of the rolls of the Moflitt machine with my inr provement attached. Fig. 2 is a section on line at 00,. Fig. l.

A is the convex former, and B the correspondinglyconeaved upper roll. The counter-blank is fed in between these rolls, and bentinto a circular shape around the former A. As theoperator feeds a blank in, it has been hitherto necessary for him to place his hand under the former A, seize the circularshaped counter or blank while aportion of it was still in the nip of the rolls, hold it off the former, and, when it was free from the rolls, drop it into a basket below the machine. Unless the operator did this, the counter or blank would hug the former A and pass a second time between it and the upper roll, B. To prevent this and free the operator from any care for the blank other than feeding it properly to the rolls, 1 have devised the simple contrivance shown in'the drawings, and which will now describe. v I A metallic strip, 0, bent in the form shown,

to lie closely to the frame D of the machine I and present as little obstruction as possible, is

of the strip 0 is provided with a plate, F, cut

concave at its inner edge, b, in order that it may be set close to or against the convex periphery of the former. The plate F is pro? vided with parallel slots a a and set-screws,

by which it is secured to the end of strip 0,

the slots a a admitting of the adjustment of" the. plate relatively to the periphery of the former. As the blank passes around the former from the nip of the upper roll, it comes in contact with the plate F, and is freed from the former and drops into the inclined spout H,whence it is conveyed to the basket or other receptacle placed to receive it.

What I claim isi 1. The herein described attachment, consisting of the strip 0, secured to the frame atone end, and at the other provided withthe plate F, having its inner edge concaved to allow of its being set close to or against the convex periphery of the former, substantially as dei I 75 scribed. v

2. In combination with the former A, the plate F and its support 0, forthe purposes and substantially as described. l

3. The combination of former A, plate F, provided with slots a a, strip or arm 0, and spout H, substantially as described.

' GRANVILLE T. SHEPLEY. 

